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Magazine Archive Databases

Vogue Archive
Archive of American Vogue magazine, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images that are completely indexed and searchable.
Women's Wear Daily Archive
Archive of Womens Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to the current year, reproduced in high-resolution images.
The Women's Wear Daily Archive provides online access to the fashion and retail publication Womens Wear Daily (WWD). This authoritative record of how the fashion industry developed over the twentieth century provides valuable primary source material for fashion, business, and history. Scans of every page are included in high-resolution, with searchable text and indexing for each article, advertisement, and cover. Take research deeper by cross-searching with other the Vogue Archive, arts indexes, historical periodicals, and newspapers in other ProQuest databases. For help using ProQuest databases, search SCAD Libraries' FAQ, or use the chat feature to contact library staff.

Dr. Teresa Anthony Collection of Fashion
Call Number: MS 012
The Dr. Teresa Anthony Collection consists of items of apparel including designer dresses, suits, blouses, skirts, gloves, and hats. Some of the materials have a connection to Savannah shops. Thirty four dress muslins and patterns are also included in the collection.
Nancy Briney Collection of Fashion Research Materials.
Call Number: MS 034
The collection consists of books, articles, photographs, images, and other materials collected in Nancy Briney's teaching of Fashion and Costume History at Harper College.
Verve : an artistic and literary quarterly. Vol. 1., no. 1
Call Number: N1 .V4 1937 v.1, no.1
This the first number of Verve was printed in Paris. Typography and process color work: Imprimerie des Beaux-Arts; heliogravure in colors: Draeger frères, heliogravure in black and white: Néogravure; lithography: Mourlot frères

A collation of specimens displaying the types & typography of broadsheets and some other ephemeral printing all now hung out to dry / printed and written by Graham Moss & Kathy Whalen. Sixty-seven examples of ephemera from Incline Press, including broadsheets, slip songs, handbills, keepsakes, bookmarks, bookplates, and small posters displaying more than 60 typefaces from Arrighi to Weiss. A wide variety of rare borders, stock blocks, wood engravings and linocuts are featured. Texts include classic poetry, bookish extracts and amusing quotations.